Twins rookie Liam Hendriks had another rough start yesterday, allowing six runs in five innings against the Pirates to fall to 0-6 with a 6.84 ERA in 10 career starts.

Hendriks is the Twins’ reigning minor league pitcher of the year, which makes his struggles all the more discouraging, but the right-hander from Australia at least says really Australian things to reporters after his ugly outings:

Coming out to the game, I feel prepared. I’ve thrown well in warmups. And I get out to the game, and something changes. I give up a couple, I start getting into a groove and I start getting that little aggressiveness back. I need to start that from the get-go. It’s just one of those things, I throw well in a couple, and I just hang a pitch, and Bob’s your uncle there.

“Bob’s your uncle there.”

Which means, basically, “and there you have it.” Except like 100 times better, especially if you say it over and over again trying to impersonate the accent like I definitely haven’t been doing for the past five minutes while writing this post.

They’ve got some great ways of putting things in Oz, but let’s face it, they’re still a couple of geological epochs behind Texas. I mean, there is nothing in Strine to equal “Ah’m so hongry I could et the asshole outta a skunk.” Is there? No, there isn’t.

if dinner didn’t hit the table quick enough in my house, you could hear my Grandma mumbling “I’m so hungry I could eat the ass out of a rag doll”. it still makes me laugh to think about it. thanks for the memory reminder.